Kosman Jirja from True North joins me to discuss his investigation into how the Canadian military is trying to make the force more inclusive, and why he fears it's alienating good soldiers. We're also talking about his probe into the Ottawa police, and how they investigated themselves and their own behaviour during a protest in Ottawa two months ago. And we're talking about Trudeau's latest attack on the west, where he blames farmers and fertilizer use for climate change.
00:08:48.340Yeah, it's, that was an event that was held at a, sorry, it's like it was a private, like military club where soldiers can go and attend, you know, dine out and have some drinks.
00:09:01.560But yeah, it's like, it just, it totally is contradictory to what you would imagine with the military, right?
00:09:10.260To the, you know, the popular images of sailors, you know, drinking together and singing.
00:09:16.260But with the critical race theory, that was the most interesting thing for me because I had a member of the CAF tell me that in these training sessions,
00:09:29.020and there's actually lots of these diversity, equity, ethics sort of training.
00:09:34.440There was book recommendations on white fragility and Robin DiAngelo and all of these prominent critical race theory left wing people whose work is, quite frankly, grounded in Marxism and communist ideas are being pushed onto the military.
00:09:54.500And here I thought the military is not supposed to be a political organization.
00:09:59.440You're not supposed to have politics in it.
00:10:02.320And they were teaching these soldiers, these ethics scenarios, basically training them like, what do you do if you encounter the situation?
00:10:10.040And all of these scenarios, particularly singled out religious, most likely Christian and people who have right wing views.
00:10:20.840There was a scenario where there was some false group called like Patriot Canada or something like that.
00:10:26.640And they asked soldiers, what do you do?
00:10:30.640You know, like, how are you supposed to approach these things?
00:10:37.360They're pushing a political ideological program into the military.
00:10:41.380And we're seeing it in multiple different sectors of society, not just there.
00:10:46.340Yeah, we've seen documents at Rebel News where they're doing this to the CBSA.
00:10:51.120They're teaching them unconscious bias at the CBSA and the CBSA union, to their credit, complained because they said this feels a little bit racist.
00:10:59.420Like they're being told, sure, you haven't done anything racist and you've never said anything racist, but that is a sign of racism because it is internalized racism.
00:11:08.860So you're hiding it, which is probably even worse.
00:11:11.020And they were very confused about how they were supposed to apply this unconscious bias training when they were searching a C-CAN for contraband.
00:11:18.460They just didn't understand why it was a thing.
00:11:21.100And it's I think this stuff makes Canadians far less safe.
00:12:11.880You know, at least if it's in the private sector, I don't have to pay for it.
00:12:15.420I don't have to be I don't have to pay for this whole swath of workers to be told that they're racist, even though they didn't do anything.
00:12:22.200And then they're also being told to be more racist.
00:12:26.800Like the textbook definition of racism is treating people differently because of their race.
00:12:36.960Speaking of people being less safe, the Ottawa police, they investigated themselves.
00:12:44.500It sounds like and they threw out the majority of the complaints against themselves that were lodged during the Freedom Convoy protests.
00:12:55.260Either they claim to have not known anything about the complaints against them.
00:12:59.640For for example, when they pepper sprayed and shot at close range with a pepper canister, our journalist Alexa.
00:13:06.360Um, but they claimed in a press conference, they didn't know anything about it, even though it was viral.
00:13:12.240Um, but this is bizarre to me that with such international attention to what happened in Ottawa and the actions of the police there, that they are just seemingly able to just investigate themselves.
00:13:27.900And wouldn't you know it, we were good.
00:13:34.500So that report was filed before the, um, Ottawa city council last week, I think.
00:13:42.120And it essentially relates to people that we saw a 300% increase in the number of complaints that, uh, Ottawa police service received based on their conduct.
00:13:55.42080, uh, over 80% of which was from, uh, or related to the Freedom Convoy protests.
00:14:02.900Now you would think with a 300% increase of complaints, you would have a similar increase of investigations, but that is not the case.
00:14:12.100Actually, they investigated just the amount, the same amount of percentage, um, uh, the same amount of cases as they did before.
00:14:19.680And, uh, most of these cases were related to use of force or, or, um, just improper conduct.
00:14:29.740A small minority of the cases were related to, uh, I think it was called abandonment of duty or something like that, which I would assume were from the Ottawa residents and not, uh, themselves who thought that the police didn't do enough to crack down on protesters.
00:14:45.640But recently the CBC put out an article just this weekend about that, and it totally ignored the fact that a majority of these complaints came from people, uh, for example, who were hit in the back with weapons, who complained to the police that the police were there to actually escalate the situation.
00:15:04.760All of those were not mentioned in this report, uh, they totally focused on those Ottawa residents who would have actually liked to see more police brutality, more, uh, use of violence and force and, um, a larger military militarized presence in Ottawa.
00:15:21.780So, again, we, we can question the so-called independent nature of this, uh, report because essentially what, what the body that, um, there's a body in Ottawa, in the Ottawa police service that forward, that reviews and vets these complaints before they get forwarded to, uh, investigation.
00:15:45.140And this body dismissed most of these complaints on various grounds, including grounds, like they're not in the public interest.
00:15:53.940So, uh, their reasonings are quite funny and arbitrary, and, uh, I would really question, um, those findings, yeah.
00:16:04.500Yeah, I think it's in the public interest to have confidence in the, um, independence of your police force,
00:16:11.520and that when they get up to no good or alleged to be up to no good, that there would be some sort of independent investigation.
00:16:18.020I'm not sure how it works in Ottawa, but I do know in Alberta, if Calgary police are involved in some, you know, excessive use of force, Edmonton police investigates vice versa.
00:16:26.940Sometimes the RCMP investigates, um, it's just odd that there's no sort of arrangement in Ottawa, but probably a little bit on the nose considering what we know about how they, um, reacted during the convoy.
00:16:40.820Now, I wanted to talk to you about this one, because it's kind of near and dear to my heart.
00:16:45.900Um, the Trudeau government, once again, this, for me, when I read this story, I'm like, ah, it's another attack on Alberta.
00:16:52.820Um, he is, uh, the Trudeau government, it's a report, um, by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, which is odd because this attacks agriculture and agri-food.
00:17:02.620In your report, it says it singles out wheat, barley, and other cereal crops, um, as one of the worst offenders for greenhouse gas emissions.
00:17:12.240And, you know, if the liberals aren't getting us with the oil and gas sector, that now they're attacking farming, and pretty quickly they're going to come for our beef producers, too.
00:17:21.520Yeah, so just to backtrack a little bit, in 2020, uh, the government essentially announced that they want to put a 30% emissions cap on, um, emissions caused by fertilizer use on farms in the agriculture sector.
00:17:40.520So, Agriculture Canada released this report in March, uh, singling out cereal and, uh, wheat barley farmers for having the so-called highest, um, emissions among export countries.
00:17:59.740Now, I've spoken to farmers groups, and they totally dispute this.
00:18:04.160It's, uh, it's based on faulty and even non-existent science, because this is actually currently being studied.
00:18:11.660Uh, there's no, uh, reliable statistics, uh, on emissions caused by fertilizer use on farms.
00:18:19.680Uh, it's actually very difficult to track.
00:18:22.540And farmers were rightly so outraged by this claim, because the government relied on a UN report.
00:18:28.900And as we know, you know, a lot of these reports from the UN on climate rely on modeling and, and sort of, uh, uh, mathematical, you know, uh, trickery, uh, and, and it's essentially amounts to guesstimations.
00:18:43.540It's not, it's not based on real hard facts.
00:18:46.460And when you actually look at the agriculture industry, Canada is a leader in reducing emissions.
00:18:52.880We actually don't abuse fertilizer, um, on farms.
00:18:58.780Farmers take the greatest pains to get the most out of, out of, uh, the least amount of fertilizer.
00:19:05.780They won't use it when it's not necessary.
00:19:25.200So you have to keep your control, your input costs because you are going to take what the market will tell you you're going to take for your wheat.
00:19:33.580So if you're wasting money on the inputs that cuts into your profit, um, at the end of the year, it's just a typical Ottawa elitist, not knowing what farmers do.
00:19:41.940Exactly. We're talking about primary producers here, the, essentially the beginning of the food supply chain, right?
00:19:50.260They're the farmers can't control the prices of fertilizer.
00:19:53.600And as you mentioned, they're currently through the roof and that's already putting a strain on what farmers are capable of producing in this, uh, in this season.
00:20:03.440Right. So, uh, as you said, it's, it is a, a, I mean, I'm inclined to think that it is a targeted attack on, on Western Canada.
00:20:12.800We saw it with, uh, Trudeau's announcement during COP26 about the 40% emissions cap on, on the oil and gas sector.
00:20:21.000We're seeing it with Agriculture Canada singling out, particularly cereal, uh, and wheat farmers, right?
00:20:28.860They're not singling out, uh, the dairy industry in Quebec, et cetera.
00:20:33.060Um, so it, it, it comes from Trudeau's longstanding, um, vehement dislike of Western Canadians, their political beliefs and, and their sort of grassroots conservatism.
00:20:47.000And I think it's a, it's really is a trend with this liberal government, especially in their climate policy.
00:20:53.440And it, it, it is really insulting, uh, to people and it should worry Canadians, especially at a time of war and, and the things we're seeing with, with inflation and economy.
00:21:05.780We will be the ones who will be paying at the end of the day for, for the grocery bills while Trudeau, you know, bills taxpayers for over $2,000 for his organic, uh, you know, grocery bills in Ottawa.
00:21:20.080So it, it, it is, it should worry a lot of people.
00:21:24.180And I think Canadians need to start questioning whether this government has the best interests, uh, of, of this country in mind, because on, on, as we've discussed here on multiple sectors, including military and agriculture, it seems like they're doing everything they can to weaken this country, to make it less secure, both in the terms of our food supply, as well as our, our, our national security.
00:21:49.080In the name of ideology and reality is going to smack that plan right in the face.
00:21:56.780If it keeps going, because, uh, that's not how the world works.
00:22:00.040We can't create a utopia, um, because there are some real hard facts that people are going to learn, uh, especially with the way things are going right now.
00:22:11.240And it seems as those across all sectors, the liberals are trying to fix something that isn't at all broke.
00:22:17.000And if they really want to come after farmers on their fertilizer use, fine, but you're going to see lower yields, which causes a higher cost to the consumer.
00:22:26.700There's a reason why organic food is way more expensive than regular old food.
00:22:31.280And it has to do with the fertilizer inputs and the, and the, uh, size of the yield after the fact.
00:22:37.620So, I mean, if you want farmers to use less, um, fertilizer, that's fine, but boy, you're going to sure pay for it, um, at the grocery till.
00:22:46.580Cosmin, thank you so much for, uh, coming on the show today and updating us with some of your work.
00:23:14.520So this is the newish portion of the show where I look back at some of your emails or some of your comments.
00:23:28.240And if you want to send an email directly to me, because I know some of you don't like to leave rumble comments or Facebook comments or YouTube comments, you can send an email directly to me, Sheila at rebelnews.com.
00:23:40.740And just put gun show letters in the headline so that I can find it easily because I get a lot of emails in a day, let alone in a week.
00:23:50.460Today's comment comes from the rumble comments section.
00:23:55.480And it's on my story where we discovered that the federal government has no data to support the segregation that they are imposing in Canada's airports.
00:24:11.280We have roughly 6 million Canadians who are unvaccinated, who cannot take an airplane.
00:24:16.340And you would think that the federal government would be trying to find some data to support the segregation they're imposing on so many Canadians.
00:24:26.800But as it turns out, they don't collect that data.
00:24:29.280They don't know anything about whether there are COVID transmissions happening on those hermetically sealed tubes hurtling through space.
00:24:39.100And on the rumble comments, somebody makes an interesting parallel between what the federal government is doing by not pursuing scientific evidence to support their policies with just the lack of regard for scientific evidence and science in general within society.
00:25:01.080So I guess why would the feds be any different?
00:25:05.700Interesting, it must be really hard to follow the science without relevant evidence.
00:25:12.900Perhaps schools that seek to tell elementary students that they can be any gender they choose despite their genetic makeup will also explain that the scientific method now regards empirical data as irrelevant.
00:25:24.540So boys can be girls, girls can be boys, and scientific recommendations require no evidence.